Dan3, I have yet to see you come up with a good analogous metaphor, but this one surely ranks up there with the worst. Do you really think that Compaq will come up with a product line in October or November, only to trash it in January with a new chipset? Not a chance. This clearly shows that Compaq is aiming for a January launch of Clawhammer.
It's what many people have predicted here for quite some time. AMD taped out Hammer in December, and it's very rare to go from tapeout to production launch, especially on a new micro-architecture, in under one year. Yet you AMDroids continue to expect miracles out of AMD, even after they delay Palomino for 9 months (which was merely a Thunderbird core with a couple micro-architectural enhancements and SSE), Thoroughbred for 6 months (which is only a dumb shrink of the Palomino core), and kill SOI Barton in favor of a last minute decision to double the Thoroughbred cache (and with that they put to death their best chance for a mobile solution that can kill Intel). Yet you think Hammer is coming along ahead of schedule, even though this is the *big* project with a new socket, new change in infrastructure, new manufacturing process, requires coherent Hypertransport, new multiprocessor topology, and tons of micro-architectural features?
LOL. Hammer will need to do a lot more than run a 64-bit compiled Pong game in order to reach launch.
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